Bigger fish through better science. This is just wrong.
I found it on the Eagle Claw website while looking for treble hooks.

http://www.calfishing.com/dc/user_files/3355.jpg
NEW CALIFORNIA STATE RECORD
Santa Ana River Lakes
(Pending DFG certification)

27.50 lbs.

John Chapman of Anaheim caught this huge "once-in-a-lifetime"
Mt. Lassen Rainbow on what he calls a "John Jig".


A John Jig is made up with a Yellow Nitro Amino Egg head
and a worm tail pinned on an Eagle Claw #8 hook.
This combo is then given a slime coating
of White Lightning Nitro Grease.


John thought he would never land this hard fighting bull,
but after nearly a 20 minute battle and several crossed lines,
his 2 lb. line and Eagle Claw hook did the trick.

Attachment #1, (.jpg file)

Actually Chris, there's been bigger fish caught since that one. California actually developed a seperate record class for stocked trout due to the size of the fish coming out of there.

The fish pictured is from Santa Ana River Lakes. They also have some genetically cross bred trout called 'Lightning Trout' and 'Thunder Trout'. Not my cup of tea :P

You can see pics of the fish and I think the record fish too here:

http://www.fishingwebcam.com/index.html

EDIT....
I stand corrected :+ 26.08 is the current record. I remember all the contraversy over the fish pictured. I think it wound up that the guy said to hell with it. Never pursued the record because of all the rumors and trouble.

What gets me is how sickly some of these fish look ;( It's like someone just stuffed em full of something and put em in the water. They're so fat and unproportional to their bodies, that they don't even look like they could swim. Doesn't even seem like they could survive that long without someone hand feeding them?

Gotta love them steroids! I think that's why they're so strangely shaped. That and spending too long in concrete runs that scrape their fins into stubs.

I hear ya, steroids and sit-ups is why I'm so strangly shaped. I don't recommend it. :P

They had a big fish contest with the last stocking, and they already knew that the state record was gonna be dumped in there (as that's how it was advertised)... the prize if caught on that day was $100,000!, though nothing that big was caught for the tournament...

I got my funny shape with beer! :+

If you're ever out at Santa Anta River Lakes in the later part of the trout season when the water starts to warm up, you'll notice alot of those huge fish either floating or washed up on the beach. It's really bad. The fish really don't seem to be healthy and from what I've heard they receive huge amounts of growth hormones to get that big.

On another note, I'm a sceptic when it come to how legitimate the catching of the "fish" really is. I've been out there, ya I know I'm lame LOL, and the guy Jon is fishing mini jigs the whole time. I also noticed that the fish have an orangish stripe to them and I'm not sure but I think that may have something to do with the guys catching them illegitimately. The other fact is that they have a place called Huckleberry Pond at SARL where they have fish that they don't feed for a few days so they're super hungry and easy to catch. They dump these fish into the big lake every Monday I believe, consequently when most of the giant mongoloid fish are caught.

I dunno about you guys, but the whole big trout on Crave thing seems a little fishy to me.

Jake

Jake

I have talked to some hatchery people about those trout and I was told they grow big because they are sterile. The feed them the same as a regular trout but they continue to grow all year long without any stress from spawning. They also said they make them sterile by raising the water temp when they are eggs. Acording to them this also happens in nature when it gets warm durring the trout spawn.
Kinda like when you cut the balls off a bull and make a stear. They get big and fat faster.

www.mattlures.com